Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign showed that voters could support a more radical stance on apartheid. In 1984, while speaking at the United Nations Special Committee ...

From 2020, when Trump dramatically increased his criticism of the judiciary, the number of serious threats—dire enough to trigger an investigation by the Marshals—rose from 220 in that year to 457 in ...

Analysis by campaign group Stop Funding Heat, shared with DeSmog, reveals that guests and hosts on TalkRadio spread climate misinformation 190 times over the month—an average of six times a day—with ...

Israel approves new settlements to ‘bury’ Palestinian State. The “E-1” settlement would see the construction of about 3,400 new housi ...

In truth, the very phrase “great power” might as well now be “grape power.” And mind you, given the strange ingenuity of humanity, don’t for a second assume that there isn’t a third way of doing us ...

The Texas House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve a mid-decade congressional redistricting plan that could shift the balance of national power for years to come. In an 88–52 vote, ...

Many Jews and Israelis balk at calling the slaughter a genocide. It is painful to apply the term to the same people who experienced the most thorough attempt at extermination in human history. And the ...

It’s been 60 years since that summer and she and I are still arguing about politics, now as life partners of more than four decades. (Don’t worry: it took me another 14 years to convince her I was a ...

The United Nations marked World Humanitarian Day this week with grim statistics: a record 383 aid workers were killed in 2024 while performing their lifesaving jobs. Nearly half of them—181—were ...

The law signed last month by President Donald Trump, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, slashes $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next decade. Analysts project that between 10 and 15 million ...

“America the Beautiful” has been attacked in so many ways by this master of destruction that it is now out of sight. It is still the symbol of the once great country that America once was, and that ...